In this video tutorial I will take you through creating the following signature. I will teach you how to use the smudge tool to create a great looking background without much effort.

If you are chaotic like me it can be hard to find a photoshop file you made in the past, especially when you forgot the name.

Taking a look at your explorer will not really help you at all in this situation because you will see something like this:

But, no longer!

Using the following plugin thumbnails of all your .psd files will be created, this will definitely save you time!

You probably have seen signatures being used by people all over the web and now found this guide because you are interested to start creating these small artworks yourself

In this “Getting Started” Guide I will provide you with everything you need to get started  making signatures. Where to get the needed resources, what programs to use, terminology, some basics tutorials. All of this and much more you will learn in this guide!

This tutorial is split into two parts. The first part will teach you how to successfully create a clipping mask. The second part focuses on how to create the following signature.

This sig may look rather daunting and difficult, but is actually a rather simple sig which was done almost entirely through Clipping Masks. But more about this signature later on, first lets have a look at the wonderful world of clipping masks!

In this tutorial I will teach you how to improve your signatures using depth. First I will show you some examples so you can see what depth exactly is and how it can drasticly improve your signatures.

In the second part of the tutorial you will learn various technique’s to create depth in your own signatures.